SUSAN JACOBY 'S NEVER SAY DIE TELLS THE TRUTH ABOUT BEING OLD ALONE BROKE and ILL : NEVER MARRIED NO KIDS BOOK REVIEW

SUSAN JACOBY 'S  NEVER SAY DIE TELLS THE TRUTH ABOUT BEING OLD ALONE BROKE and ILL

Linking to a YouTube video  (sorry but the video expired so I took it down Nov 2 2023) in which author Susan Jacoby explains her viewpoint. Will our old age be so different than that of our parents or grandparents? New Agism has taken over. Just read a devastating book, written by a secular humanist Susan Jacoby, who looks at the facts not the spin on old age. NEVER SAY DIE, THE MYTH AND MARKETING of THE NEW OLD AGE, put out by Pantheon Books this year, looks at issues like Baby Boomer finances (especially severe for old women), Alzheimer's, and other issues that the people promoting 80 as the new 50 don't want you to try on. While reading this book I was thinking of the recession we're in and the fact that many women never have the kind of employers who provide retirements. So many are already hurting, already working hard and unable to save. I was thinking that fear of being alone and broke in old age IS STILL NOT A GOOD ENOUGH REASON TO HAVE CHILDREN TO TAKE CARE OF YOU IN OLD AGE . In visiting seniors living in retirement homes, board and cares, and nursing homes, I already know that many of those who had children - and grandchildren - still do not get the visits they need. I notice those ads that have vital active and young looking grey haired seniors enjoying their retirement years. They rarely seem to show real residents, people with walkers and wheel chairs. This book is not light summer reading, but it is reading that will make you think and activate. '

Sister

(First published  August 30, 2011)

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DAN BROWN'S INFERNO FOCUSES ON WORLD OVER POPULATION

Dan Brown's latest best seller, "Inferno", has all the plot pretzels we've come to expect from this author, and also, as he did in his previous best seller, "Angels and Demons", the confusion of which characters are good and which are bad until the very end. As expected Professor Robert Langdon, the expert on Symbolism in art and architecture and the Art Masters who has a reoccuring role in Brown's stories, has an attractive and intelligent female side kick who gets into the game early on.

Like the title says, the art history focus in "Inferno" is on the artist Dante whose painting The Inferno, and long poem "The Divine Comedy", gave medieval Christians a version of hell.

With an eye always to his books going to film, Brown seems to be willing to create some strong and intelligent female characters and Langdon is always having flirtations but holding himself in Professorial check. There will be no acts of procreation here.

I'm writing about this book for NEVER MARRIED NO KIDS - An Intentional Community because in this book, Brown focuses on the overpopulation of the world and the people who want to depopulate by any means as way of preserving humans as a species.

A brilliant scientist has set up the chase through art and architecture under deadline pressure by hiding a virus he created in a place where it can be carried around the world airborn and leaving clues as to where it might be found before he himself commits suicide.

In this case the means to solve world overpopulation is a virus that will make 2/3rds of the population sterile. The virus changes some people's DNA. As it spreads the infected suffer no illnesses and are unaware they've been changed. It will take a couple years before already living begin to die out naturally and some of the already living discover there is a sterility epidemic.

Is this the compassionate way when the alternative is for so many children to be born to suffering and death as happens today? Is it time to take the decision or choice away from humans since so much currently in place is not having a profound effect and better health care and the extension of life is in conflict with the realities of starvation and disease?

In "Inferno" you'll find more than one female character who is NMNK !

If Brown has an agenda in his writing overall, it just may be the attack on the Catholic Church which he was first accused of when he became famous with his book "The DaVinci Code." In "Angels and Demons" he took us to the Vatican, and here we are in Italy and Turkey, racing around the worlds art and architecture treasures where tourist season is always on.

I'm not going to attack the Catholic Church. It wouldn't be right since the Catholic Church is not the cause for overpopulation. Sure, you will have more children if you don't use contraception. The Church is against artificial methods but not against celibacy, abstinence, or the rhythm method (for which there is now a small bedside machine that used daily alerts a woman to when she is ovulating.) Women of other religions and varieties of Christianity also have many children - think the Latter Day Saints, the Southern Baptists, Hindus, Muslims.  Really, many cultures think women are meant to be mothers. 

The Catholic Church also recommends marrying for the right reasons (premarital classes), staying married (marriage is an oath to God and a Blessed Sacrament), and having children within marriage. It emphasises personal responsibility.   In the ever more secular United States most Catholics are using contraception. And as a nation, though it is being challenged, we are lucky to have abortion as a choice, unlike in China where abortions are forced.

So, if Brown has a thing against the Catholic Church in his writing that comes from his personal belief system, then here I must discuss it only as a literary theme in his work, and in this book where indeed the Church is blamed for some of the overpopulation of the world; he must mean by Catholics outside the United States.

Knowing that you're not contributing to the over population of the world can be nice, but knowing that we may be reaching to point where we can no longer support all the human life on earth and that there is so much suffering is not so.

WARRIOR MARKS by ALICE WALKER and PRATIBHA PARMAR

WARRIOR MARKS
Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women
by Alice Walker and Pratibha Parmar
Harcourt Brace and Company


Want to get your feminist ire up? READ THIS BOOK! You know Alice Walker as the author of THE COLOR PURPLE. In this book she and her Indian co-author go to Africa and talk to the mutilated and the mutilators, in hopes of educating to stop the practice. Do they have dykes over there? Yep!


Page 44 "Their role is to dress as clowns and men in order to amuse everyone else. One of them kept shaking her near-naked butt in the children's faces. I don't know if they are dykes. I think they are ridiculed and forced to play this entertainer role so that they, as BAREN WOMEN, can have a place in society at all, since a barren woman is considered of no use whatsoever. ."

ACT LIKE A LADY, THINK LIKE A MAN is actually ACT LIKE A WHORE, THINK LIKE STEVE HARVEY

Review by Sister C 2009 All Rights including Internet Rights and International Rights Reserved

The #1 New York Times Bestseller ACT LIKE A LADY, THINK LIKE A MAN, is comedian Steve Harvey's opus on the so called war between the sexes. BAD NEWS ! Really the title should be ACT LIKE A WHORE, THINK LIKE STEVE HARVEY !...

What is this shi* doing on the New York Times Best Seller list? Is the American public, women in particular, this INSECURE that we need another "expert" to tell us how to get and keep men?

No, he's not being funny, he's serious when he says that a man needs COOKIE (read NOOKIE) and if he has to wait a whole month or more to get it from you HE IS GOING TO CHEAT. Who wants or needs men in our personal lives like that? NOT ME!

MEN ARE NOT ALL LIKE THIS. The biology as destiny argument is worthless!

MEN WORTH HAVING IN YOUR LIFE ARE NOT LIKE THIS.

Mature men, who are not ego buffed by celebrity and groupies hanging off their *ocks, know that TRUE INTIMACY and REAL COMMITMENT are not dependent on sexual functioning. Yes, people go through pregnancies, illnesses, loose their libidos or their ability to get it up. Men worth having aren't demanding sex from their women who are undergoing radiation and chemotherapy for breast cancer, for instance.

STEVE HARVEY seems stuck in adolescence to me!

IF WOMEN TURNED THE TABLES ON SUCH MEN and SAID "If you don't give me orgasms I'm out of here," there would be very few families and there probably wouldn't even be a population problem!

MEN LIKE STEVE HARVEY NEED TO BE INTRODUCED TO THEIR HANDS rather than WASTE THE TIME (and the LOVE) of women! They are NOT gentleman, and gentleman, by the way, ARE the ones who PROVIDE and PROTECT.